Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.5749/futuante.17.1.0001
Vinegar
{"title":"In Flagrante: On Some Burning Questions for Restoration","authors":"Vinegar","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Like a phoenix from the flames, the nineteenth-century French restorer and architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s name was resurrected from the ashes of the fire that consumed Notre-Dame cathedral on the evening of April 15, 2019. But the invocation of Viollet-le-Duc’s legacy in the aftermath of the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral was, more often than not, a firewall against engaging with the disturbing and still relevant core of his practice and theory of restoration. This essay tarries with this virtual and inexhaustible core through three scenes of conflagration that illuminate the fire and passion of his thinking for our time.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76543398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.5749/futuante.17.1.0061
Dominique Poulot
{"title":"Notre-Dame de Paris in 2020: Between Endangerment Sensibility and Cultural Heritage Task Force","authors":"Dominique Poulot","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0061","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Notre-Dame disaster caused a worldwide emotional response, fueled by social networks and the media; it also generated a sudden and considerable public generosity. In response, the French government has devised a specific law, one in favor of an unprecedented modernization for restoring heritage, combined with a task force under the supervision of a retired army general. Subsequently, the uncertainties of its conservation, or of a future creation of a spire, seemed to sanction the bankruptcy of the ancient intelligence of the monument. If romantic imagery, more or less anecdotal, has been repeated here and there, and if the scholarly memory of a Christian and national cathedral has been exploited by media, the ecological traumas—the evocation of a disappeared forest with the framework and the lead pollution around it—seem to have prevailed in the public imagination. The challenge today is to go beyond a communion in the drama of a loss in order to identify heritage, its uses, and its change in a future society.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"17 1","pages":"61 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84799131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.5749/futuante.17.1.0019
Richard Wittman
{"title":"Churches and States (Updated)","authors":"Richard Wittman","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The public anguish, debates, recriminations, and political struggles that have come in the wake of the April 2019 fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre-Dame in Paris are not without precedent. The present essay—a revised and extended version of a text first published in September 2019 in Places Journal—relates the post-fire saga of Notre-Dame to an uncannily similar (if rarely noted) nineteenth-century precedent: the debate and reconstruction of the early Christian basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura (Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls) subsequent to its destruction by fire in 1823. The essay aims to use the remarkably suggestive parallels between the two events as a means of informing the current debate.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"91 1","pages":"19 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83761234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.5749/futuante.17.1.0097
F. Bandarin
{"title":"The Restoration and Reconstruction of Notre-Dame of Paris: A Test for the Profession","authors":"F. Bandarin","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0097","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On April 15, 2019, the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris suffered a major disaster: a fire destroyed its eight-hundred-year-old roof, the nineteenth-century spire, and threatened other parts of the building. An effective intervention by the firemen managed to contain the damages and saved the other parts of the cathedral from destruction. The disaster caused huge emotional reactions throughout the world, highlighting the symbolism of Notre-Dame as a place of spiritual and historical values, enshrined in its World Heritage status.The restoration and reconstruction of Notre-Dame has become an important case for Heritage conservation. There are many significant issues at stake: the way in which monuments are protected from risks; the approach and the methodologies of architectural reconstruction; the role played by technical, financial and institutional actors; the relationship between politics and heritage in a highly symbolic place; and finally, the role played by its World Heritage status. The choices for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame have significant impacts on future conservation and restoration projects.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"17 1","pages":"110 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84966544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.5749/futuante.17.1.0081
Emily L. Spratt
{"title":"On the Gothic Edits of Notre Dame de Paris","authors":"Emily L. Spratt","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0081","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the immediate aftermath of the devastating fire that ravaged Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15–16, 2019, the French government announced a competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral’s spire. This article examines several preliminary plans from architects and designers responding to the April 17 call for proposals and the notable effect of digital technologies in the realization of all the designs. Through a comparison of these plans to the restorations made by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc to the church in the middle of the nineteenth century, approaches to the problematic concept of the Gothic style are emphasized. In this analysis, attention is placed on the surprising theoretical similarities between notions of the Gothic and the digital despite their drastically different historical origins as ideas. Brought together, the need for clarification of the conceptual significance of the future, digitally-enabled Gothic edit for Notre-Dame de Paris emerges as an essential aspect of the building’s preservation as a historic monument. Given the sensibilities of our digital age of permanent impermanence, idealism, and the possibility of the forever future edit, the potential reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris offers unbounded architectural temptations and the possibilities of every Gothic variety that require tempering.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"220 1","pages":"81 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74876487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.5749/futuante.17.1.0075
Otero-Pailos
{"title":"In Notre-Dame, We Find a Heritage That Invites Us to Breathe and Reflect: A Spire Competition Is the Wrong Approach","authors":"Otero-Pailos","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0075","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Published four days after the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, this opinion piece rebuked the hasty decision by then French President Emmanuel Macron to replace the spire destroyed in the conflagration with one in a contemporary style. Otero-Pailos took particular issue with the process announced by the French government to hold an international competition to award an architect all of the decision-making power to determine the aesthetics of the new elements. While appearing to be forward looking, this process actually harkened back to antiquated nineteenth-century preservation methods in its fixation on the visual form of the architectural object, and its effective exclusion of the voices of ordinary citizens. Against this old model, Otero-Pailos argued for setting up an inclusive participatory social process to ascertain the kinds of aesthetic experiences that are meaningful to people who are emotionally involved in this heritage place. Such a process would result in identifying the significance of unexpected character-defining aesthetic elements of Notre-Dame, such as its smell, in addition to its visual appearance. If conducted without a bias toward positive emotions, the process would raise awareness of the negative emotions that the interested public associates with the aesthetic experiences of Notre-Dame. Such awareness would in turn help keep questions of fairness at the center of the preservation process, attuning it to the demands for social justice and making politicians and preservation professionals accountable for how it might be achieved, not only through new experimental preservation aesthetics but also through new financial models, such as redistributing the enormous sums of private capital raised by the fire to other heritage sites and communities in more precarious states.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"42 1","pages":"75 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77325945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-03-18DOI: 10.5749/futuante.16.2.0059
{"title":"City, Country, Agency","authors":"","doi":"10.5749/futuante.16.2.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.16.2.0059","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Postcolonial philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivered the little-known “City, Country, Agency” as the keynote presen tation at the Theatres of Decolonization: [Architecture] Agency [Urbanism] Conference held at Chandigarh, India, in 1995. Republished after twenty-five years as a historical document in this issue of Future Anterior with contemporary commentary by the author, this keynote points to a past for decolonization as a paradigm within architecture and preservation that also has critical lessons for the present.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"99 1","pages":"59 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75939623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-03-18DOI: 10.5749/futuante.16.2.0017
Amal Sachedina
{"title":"Heritage Imagery and Temporal Space in the Sultanate of Oman: Cultivating Modes of Ethical Living through State Media","authors":"Amal Sachedina","doi":"10.5749/futuante.16.2.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.16.2.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Since its inception as a nation-state in 1970, Oman’s expanding heritage industry—exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, cultural festivals, and the restoration of more than one hundred forts, castles, and citadels—fashions a distinctly national geography and a territorial imaginary. Material forms of old mosques, restored forts, museumified living settlements, and national symbols such as the coffee pot or dagger saturate the landscape and become increasingly ubiquitous as part of a public memorialization of the past. Material forms, and their circulation through institutional techniques of education and mass publicity, assume a repetitive aesthetic pedagogy that cultivates everyday civic virtues, new modes of religiosity and forms of marking time, defining the ethical actions necessary to become an Omani modern through the framework of tradition. Heritage is approached here not merely for its ability to instill ideologies, thus downgrading its truth to a function of state power and manipulation, but for its potential to shape the perceptual habits, emotional affects, and ethical sensibilities of its audience.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"10 1","pages":"16 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84553587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future AnteriorPub Date : 2021-03-18DOI: 10.5749/futuante.16.2.0031
Sudeshna Guha
{"title":"Decolonizing South Asia through Heritage-and Nation-Building","authors":"Sudeshna Guha","doi":"10.5749/futuante.16.2.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.16.2.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay builds upon the premise that heritage and decolonization share histories of obsessive emphases upon exclusive, unique and fiercely acquisitive identities. Considering that the scholarship of decolonization increasingly fixes attention upon the displays of the colonial in the realms of the former imperial powers, the aims here are to shift attention to the curation of the national within the post-colony. The essay explores histories of archaeological collections, collecting practices, museums, and exhibitions within India to illustrate the imbrication of the practices of heritage making and politics of decolonization. It highlights the pedagogic value of biographies of collections and exhibitions for analyzing the shared histories, and engages with the Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) of nation-making for interrogating the practices of naturalizing cultural heritage.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"26 1","pages":"30 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90340177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}